μῦθοι Mythoi
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  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
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Filed under Treatment of difficult guests.

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The guest who could not keep warm. He keeps calling for more bed clothes. The host finally piles a ladder, a trough, etc., on top of him until he calls for helpGuests make impossible demands of host: host's representative forces guests to leave by sending them on difficult questProper food for ox and ass. Guests call each other ox and ass. Host offers green grass for the first and fodder for the secondGuests frightened away by housewifeWhen hints do not get rid of unwelcome guests, force must be used. Thus man treats his sons-in-lawA sham fight to frighten away the guestsPriest frightens away parasitic guests. Tells them he has that morning confessed man with plague

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